Extrac32's 124th Praetorian Imperial Guard and other projects

Results and time for another Tournament

2011-04-09T17:13:00.000-07:00

Although the last tournament ended awhile ago i forgot to write up my results
As for the tournament, not so good:

Game one was vs Dark Eladar in a kill points mission, i was winning 3 kill points to none for the first 3 turns. Then i lost some tanks and a few units and wound up losing. i had 3 kill points to his 4. Most interesting part of the game was my commander, he was the only man left and took a charge from the archon who managed to do one wound and i made the invul save, dished out two wounds in return. Next turn archon gets one wound in, i again make my invul save and then kill him. My commander tried to get out of the terrain, but gets charged by 10 warriors who did nothing and my commander kills a few of them. One of my sentinels joins in and just as i pick up the dice and before i could make my rolls in the following turn the game ended. For some reason my guard did really well in assualt, 12 - 10 points, 10 point loss to me.

Game 2 was against Necron army which at 1250pts had a deciever, monolith two units of 3 destroyers, tomb spider and warriors. thing about this game was we didnt know what the the mission was until turn three, which was rolled of and ended up being kill points. By that stage i was down 3 kill points and i hadnt killed anything of his, i managed to kill one unit and at the end of it, it was six kill points to my one. 16 - 8 points, 8 points loss to me.

Game 3 was against chaos, list consisted of Lucious, Daemon Prince, three squads of 8 death guard in rhinos and two obliterators. Mission was minor objectives, setup was quarters and ten objectives were placed in the other corners. One objective was removed each turn by a different player, i just realised this minute that he had placed his objectives in his quarter when you were not supposed to do it, fml. I ended up losing, holding one objective to his three, what consistently happened is when i needed it to go into turn six, a two was rolled for the turn continuation. Could have won the game if it went into turn six, another interesting moment was losing 18 out of 20 guardsmen to three flamers and then returning the favour to that unit, with my demolisher knocking the unit down to one man and lucius to one wound. 13 - 9 points, 9 point loss to me.

Game 4 was against eldar and the mission had one main objective in the middle and two in each of the deployment zones. Well it was a mixed bag, but at the end he held two objectives and i held one, so with a 20 man blob sitting 12 inches away from the one dire avenger on his deployment objective, we roll for turn 6 and the dice come up with a 2. 12 - 10 points, 10 point loss to me.

So i finished somewhere near the bottom, did well in painting and composition markings. But i think next year ill either take my chaos or finally finish my marines.

So with one of my favourite two day tournaments coming up at the end of this month, its time to get cracking. For this one ive decided to go with my Chaos, as you can see from my results with the guard at the last tournament, i have been put off from taking them to tournaments at the moment. So having written up a list,which ill post up soon, i need to put together and paint the two units i now need. Which are a standard unit of Chaos Space Marines and a unit of Khorne Bezerkers.

Here are photos of one of my painted units i have done so far, to show off my Black legion scheme and this unpainted unit, is one of my favourite set of old school chaos models. They will represent a more veteran unit of marines.

Objectives Complete

2011-03-03T00:09:00.001-08:00

Well now everything is complete for the tournament this Saturday. It was requested but not mandatory to bring 8 objectives, so i got around to finishing these just in time.

Sentinel and Chimera

2011-02-25T21:52:00.001-08:00

Well ive completed 1250pts with a week to spare, for a tournament im playing in next saturday. All i need to do is add some transfers to the chimera and maybe the sentinels and paint up 8 objectives.

Army List

2011-02-23T03:20:00.000-08:00

Ok so i have a 1250pts tournament coming up on the 5th of march and this is the list ive decided to field. Enough fire power to deal with most things, the only thing im worried about is objective based missions. Play tested a slightly different list, against a blood angels rhino spam army and flogged them pretty good, in an objective mission. All i have left to paint is the chimera, two sentinels and eight objectives with less then two weeks to go.

HQ
Company Commander – Power Sword
4 x guardsmen – Standard bearer, Mortar team, Vox-Caster, Carapace.
Total = 105pts

Troops

Infantry Platoon
Command Section
Junior officer – Power sword
4 x guardsmen – 4 x Flamers
Chimera
Infantry Squads
Squad 1 – Heavy Bolter and Grenade launcher, Power Weapon, Commissar, Power Weapon, Vox Caster
Squad 2 – Heavy Bolter and Grenade launcher.
Squad 3 – Autocannon and Grenade launcher, Vox Caster.
Total Points for Platoon 1 = 375pts

Infantry Platoon 2
Command Section
Junior officer – Power Sword.
2x guardsmen with Lascannon.
Vox-Caster.

Infantry Squads
Squad 1 – Missile launcher and Grenade launcher, Vox-Caster, Power Weapon, Commissar, Power Weapon
Squad 2 – Lascannon and Grenade launcher, Vox-Caster
Squad 3 – Missile launcher and Grenade launcher
Total Points for Platoon 2 = 345pts

Fast Attack
Hellhound
Smoke Launchers
Total = 135pts

Sentinel
Autocannon

Sentinel
Rocket Launcher

Heavy Support
Demolisher
Hull Heavy Bolter
Plasma Cannon Sponsons
Total = 205pts

Update: Commissar and Squad Sergeants

2011-02-09T00:45:00.000-08:00

Well i have been busy painting, but i had to send my computer away to be fixed. Anyway i have finished the second commissar and the two power weapon toting sarge's for both first squads in each platoon.

Marbo is finished.

2010-12-30T13:54:00.000-08:00

Well finally got around to finishing Marbo.

Commissar is Done.

2010-11-18T01:38:00.000-08:00

Commissar

2010-11-03T23:08:00.001-07:00

With only one exam left to go, i have pretty much finished my degree and start my traineeship as a Environmental Field Technician next monday. So i now find myself with time to work on this next 250pts worth. I have finished Marbo's base and will get into the greenstuffing tomorrow, to get him ready for painting.

In the mean time, i have the first of 2 Commissar's ready for the 1250pts list, to be painted. The model orignally had a bolter so after much cutting and filing i removed it, to put on a bolt pistol.

Commissar Achard: Attached to First Platoon, Alpha Squad.

Marbo, bit of an update.

2010-10-19T04:31:00.001-07:00

Just a bit of an update, just have Marbo blue tacked together at the moment to get an idea of where im going with the model. Im hoping it looks alright. The base is almost done, i have glued sand on it and waiting for it to dry, before i add a watered down pva coat over the top.

Marbo

2010-10-15T01:16:00.001-07:00

Decided to run Marbo in my 1250pts list. So here is work in progress shots, mainly blue tacked together atm. The first pictue has bits and pieces im using for him, with the demo charge up the front.

Relax.

2010-09-29T04:30:00.000-07:00

Dont worry there will be more work soon. Im busy with my final semester of uni and probably wont really get back into the guard until november. Ponderings for the day was a praetorian marbo, havent used the character in the game, so not sure on whether it is of any use. Still musing on my next 250pts worth, looking at a chimera, two commissars and five stormtroopers or marbo or even rough riders.

But still i need to actually add all the proper sgt models to my infantry squads, now that the rules dont allow them lasguns. Im one sgt short which i have a bid on one on ebay and a bugler model i want to add to my command section for a vox caster, 6 hours to go.

Completed Army so far.

2010-08-02T04:53:00.000-07:00

Well here is my 1000pts worth of praetorians completed so far.

Squad 3 and Demolisher finished.

2010-07-22T23:43:00.000-07:00

Well finally got around to finishing my 1000pts worth of guard. I have completed the third squad from platoon 2 and the demolisher. Although i am tempted to add some chipping to the track areas on the hull, but not to sure how to do it properly.

Update: Platoon 2 and the Regimental Standard finished.

2010-04-23T01:11:00.001-07:00

Update: Hellhound

2010-01-06T04:52:00.000-08:00

Well its been along time between posts. Ive managed to pretty much complete my hellhound. I almost have 1000pts compltely painted the only things left to paint are the demolisher and one 10 man infantry squad. The 1000pt list ive been running has been pretty tough and so far i have 1 win and 2 draws. I have a 2000pts tournament coming up in april and cant decide to take these guys or repaint most of my black legion and take them instead.

Command HQ

2009-10-05T01:58:00.001-07:00

Command HQ is pretty much done, all that is left to do is the regimental standard.

Valkyrie Progress

2009-06-12T00:23:00.001-07:00

Some progress. The interior is painted and all that is left is to paint the gunners and the heavy bolters.

Completed Sentinel

2009-06-10T03:02:00.001-07:00

I completed this awhile ago and i magnetised the weapons and hull for easy changing.

Current Project

2009-06-10T01:50:00.000-07:00

Well uni is finished for the semester, so i now have more time to work on my guard for an up coming campaign.

My Current Work in Progress:

All ive done is added soem praetorian heavy weapon torso's, instead of using the ones that come with the valkyrie.